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Happy Mother’s Day from ESVA!

MAY 01, 2017
May 2017 Photos of the Month
NBLA Staff

Photos of the Month — May 2017

We’re spending some time this May leading up to Mother’s Day reflecting and remembering physicists who were mothers and women who raised some of the most well-known scientists in history. Some women, such as Marie Curie, whose daughter Irène Joliot-Curie was a Nobel Prize winning chemist, were both!

Featured among this month’s photos are snapshots of both Marie Curie and Irène Joliot-Curie working in a lab, Maria Mayer and her daughter Marianne, and Albert Einstein’s mother, Pauline Einstein, née Koch. To browse more pictures of mothers from our archives, search for “Mother” using the quick search box on our site.

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